mourners

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"No words of compassion can ease this pain of loss, this burden of great suffering, when one must bury young people," the priest told black-clothed mourners, weeping or clutching flowers and holding each other.

From Barron's • May 19, 2026

AFP photographs showed mourners carrying Haddad's body, wrapped in a Hamas flag, on a stretcher from the ruins of a building.

From Barron's • May 16, 2026

In tears as they walked through the village of Baysariyeh, the mourners gathered to remember Khalil, the ninth journalist killed in Lebanon this year.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2026

Footage from the IRGC-affiliated Tasnim news agency, showed hundreds of mourners bowing their heads in front of a group of at least 18 coffins draped in the flag of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026

The mourners who had come with Sheik Hassoun filed to the bier and he read passages from the Koran.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey